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Unread 08-01-2004, 19:58
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Re: Design Sharing

your teams design SHOULD be the result of your game analysis, your strategy for playing, and it will depend on your teams resources and manufacturing capacity

so by the time you have a 'design' to share, I cant imagine another team stopping what they were doing and copying your design instead

besides, why is your teams design more correct, competitive.... than mine? why would I throw away all the work my team has done so far (we would be in the 3rd or 4th week by this time) and start working like mad to copy what you did?

so I guess sharing would be a good thing in general. If you came up with some killer function or mechanism, you might want to keep that under wraps - esp if it could be easily added to someone elses machine

keep in mind that once you attend a regional, everyone will see your bot. If there is something clever you did, then they CAN copy that feature and fabricate it at their next regional, or at the championship - as long as you dont fabricate the parts back home and bring them with you, you are allowed to modify your bot AT the event site.

I lean towards sharing knowledge - knowlege is power and time is money... so be generous with what you have

thats what they told me in kindergarden, sharing is good! :c)
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